Cautionary tale in Sacramento must be glaring red light for the Spurs

The NBA is a crazy place where teams do crazy things like firing championship-winning coaches less than three years after their crowning achievement or re-trying the DeMar DeRozan/Zach LaVine experiment a second time in a different city.

The first situation is one the Spurs would never subject their fans to unless something drastic happened, the second is materializing a version in the form of rumors and conversations among fans about bringing Domantas Sabonis to town. San Antonio pulled off a hands-down huge win when they added De'Aaron Fox without giving up Stephon Castle or anything else significant.

Now that Sabonis is reportedly expressing uncertainty in Sacramento's organization, whispers that he may want out are increasing. With his former running mate in Alamo City and the Spurs open for business, some believe they should try to pry the league-leading rebounder from Beam Central. They shouldn't even consider that nonsense.

The Fox/Sabonis experiment has run its course

The Kings just fired their general manager, and it's easy to see why after the season they just had. Sacramento has struggled for relevancy since the days of Chris Webber and Mike Bibby. When head coach Mike Brown finally led them back to the playoffs in his first season with the team, the expectation was that they were on the rise, but poor management and a weak roster sent them in the other direction.

Instead of understanding the flaws in the personnel and adjusting them appropriately, they compounded the issues on their roster by adding DeMar DeRozan. That hurt their spacing even more, and with fewer shots to go around, the shooters they had took a step back. So, naturally, they fired the coach when that's not the coach's fault.

At the end of the day, it wasn't easy to make the Fox/Sabonis combination work well enough to be a playoff contender in the first place. They had some success, but nobody was scared of that duo come playoff time—mostly because they weren't going to make it.

Son of former NBA great Arvydas Sabonis, Domantas has improved his three-point shooting, but he's only taking 2 per game and does most of his damage in the paint. That space is reserved for Victor Wembanyama, De'Aaron Fox, Stephon Castle, and Jeremy Sochan. Not to mention, he's not a great defender, and this team needs help in solidifying that side of the ball.

He's also only going into the second year of a four-year contract paying him over 40 million a year, and his money increases every year. That's way too much for a third option when you'll have to pay Victor Wembanyama over $300 million when he's up for his extension in two years.

There's no reason to retry that pairing when you take all factors into consideration. The Spurs will have many more options to comb through to add the right guys to the championship pot they're brewing, but if they add the wrong ingredients to the formula, it could blow up in their faces.